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E. L. BUSHNELL. Spring for Bed.

.No. 235,338. Patented Dec. 14,1880

N-PETERS, PNOTD-UTHOGRAFHER. WASHINGTON, D. O.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

EDWIN L. BUSHNELL, OF POUGHKEEPSIE, NEW YORK.

SPRING FOR BEDS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 235,338, dated December 14, 1880,

Application filed September 21, 1877.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, EDWIN L. BUSHNELL, of Poughkeepsie, in the county of Dutchess and State of New York, have invented certain Improvements in Springs for Beds, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to spring-beds composed of helical springs; and the improvements consist in providing the springs with eyes or cars of peculiar form, as hereinafter more fully explained.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure l is a plan view of a spring provided with eyes of the improved form Fi g. 2, a view illustrating the usual manner of applyingthe connecting strips or bands. I

My invention relates to the form of the eyes with which the springs are provided, and is designed as an improvement upon the eye described in a former patent granted to me, reissued October 31, 1871, No. 4,616.

The object of this improvement is to facilitate the application of the connecting bands or webbing by which the springs are connected; and it consists in forming the eyes or cars with an open inner side of less width than the closed side, as shown in Fig. 1, in which A represents the spring, and o the eye. When the eyes are thus constructed the webbing may be drawn into the same through the open side, and thus the necessity of threading it through the eyes is avoided and a great saving in time effected. At the same time, the open side of the eye being narrower than the closed side and also narrower than the webbing, the latter is prevented from slipping out of the eyes, and thus the connections are kept in place.

The eyes or cars 0 are for the purpose of receiving the connecting devices by which the springs are united to form a mattress or bedbottom, and will be applied to or formed upon one or both ends and upon one or more sides, according to the position the spring is to occupy and the construction of the mattress or bed-bottom.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim is The springs having at their ends the eyes 0, having their inner sides open but of less width than the outer side, whereby the application of the fastening is facilitated and its escape during operation prevented.

EDWIN L. BUSHNELL.

Witnesses:

P. T. DODGE, WILL. W. DODGE. 

